About Explain Pain Courses

Objectives

To increase your ability to integrate this into your assessment & management of anyone in pain

To demonstrate that the biology of pain is both intuitively sensible and terrifically interesting

Content

The first half of the course is primarily lecture format and focuses on translating the substantial developments in modern pain science into clinically-friendly language and bite-size concepts.

The second part focuses on modern understandings of how we can get people to reconceptualise their pain, introducing participants to the conceptual change pathway, from metaphors and stories to biological concepts and functional and management implications.

Course preparation

There is no pre-course preparation needed.

Audience

This course is very relevant to any clinician who treats people in pain.

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Do you have back pain? We need you!

We are looking for people who have back pain that has persisted for more than 3 months.
Our study in Adelaide is investigating the relationship between chronic back pain and poor sleep, and the contributions of general mood and beliefs about pain.

We are asking that you complete a questionnaire about your general health, pain and sleep characteristics. You will also be asked to wear a wristwatch type device that records your activity levels for one week while also maintaining a pain and sleep diary. If you choose to participate, you will be given a report on your sleep quality. This research has been approved by the UniSA Ethics Committee Ref. 0000033839 “Chronic Back Pain and Sleep study”.

If you are interested, please contact Danny on 8302 1432 or email danny.camfferman@unisa.edu.au.

Please take our survey

The Body in Mind Research Group at the University of South Australia invites you to be part of an investigation on hand postures and pain.

We are interested in the things that affect how we experience pain. A better understanding of this will help us to make sense of acute and chronic pain.

If you are 18 years or older and have hand pain, hand arthritis or you are pain free we invite you to participate in our short survey here.

Participants needed – Adelaide

Do you live in Adelaide? Are you female between 25 and 70 and have good hearing? Do you have fibromyalgia or would you like to help someone who has by being a participant in a very interesting and painless study we are conducting at the University of South Australia.

The study examines sensory processing in people with fibromyalgia and those without by recording your eye blink responses to some sounds. You also need to complete several questionnaires that ask about your health and well-being so we need up to 2 hours of your time.

Compensation of $20 per hour up to a maximum of 2 hours is offered. If you are interested, please contact Carolyn.berryman@unisa.edu.au.

Healthy volunteers needed

We are investigating the effects of a (non-painful) tendon vibration illusion in the way you feel your body. This will involve 1 session lasting approximately 1.5 hours and you will be reimbursed $20 for your time.

If you live in Adelaide and are healthy and are right handed with no pain in your hands and arms please contact: Valeria Bellan or
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We do not prescribe treatments.